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Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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Want to be the first to learn about new datasets and use of data in GBIF? Check out @gbifmorpho.bsky.social 🦋
🐨 2025 has been a big one! We’ll be taking a short break to rest, reflect and recharge 💚
Thank you to our amazing GBIF community including nodes, data publishers, data users, volunteers, committee members and staff for an incredible year. Here’s to an exciting 2026 ahead! ⭐
Thank you to our amazing GBIF community including nodes, data publishers, data users, volunteers, committee members and staff for an incredible year. Here’s to an exciting 2026 ahead! ⭐
December 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🐨 2025 has been a big one! We’ll be taking a short break to rest, reflect and recharge 💚
Thank you to our amazing GBIF community including nodes, data publishers, data users, volunteers, committee members and staff for an incredible year. Here’s to an exciting 2026 ahead! ⭐
Thank you to our amazing GBIF community including nodes, data publishers, data users, volunteers, committee members and staff for an incredible year. Here’s to an exciting 2026 ahead! ⭐
Documenting the roots 🌺 of Arctic biogeography
The Vascular Plants from Eirik Raude's Land dataset is now available on GBIF, documenting >5,000 plant observations in Greenland from the 1930s.
Data was published through the #DanBIF IPT💚
🔗 gbif.link/plants-of-...
The Vascular Plants from Eirik Raude's Land dataset is now available on GBIF, documenting >5,000 plant observations in Greenland from the 1930s.
Data was published through the #DanBIF IPT💚
🔗 gbif.link/plants-of-...
December 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Documenting the roots 🌺 of Arctic biogeography
The Vascular Plants from Eirik Raude's Land dataset is now available on GBIF, documenting >5,000 plant observations in Greenland from the 1930s.
Data was published through the #DanBIF IPT💚
🔗 gbif.link/plants-of-...
The Vascular Plants from Eirik Raude's Land dataset is now available on GBIF, documenting >5,000 plant observations in Greenland from the 1930s.
Data was published through the #DanBIF IPT💚
🔗 gbif.link/plants-of-...
📣 The official @tdwg.org Darwin Core public review has been extended until 16 January for community input!
⚡ Get involved! All community members are encouraged to participate.
🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...
⚡ Get involved! All community members are encouraged to participate.
🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...
December 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
📣 The official @tdwg.org Darwin Core public review has been extended until 16 January for community input!
⚡ Get involved! All community members are encouraged to participate.
🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...
⚡ Get involved! All community members are encouraged to participate.
🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...
🤔 Have questions about the European Commission-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) regional and cross-regional call?
📅 Register for the open Q&A session on 13 January 2026 from 09:30-10:30 (UTC+1) to raise any questions about BID programme.
🔗 gbif.link/BID_QandA
📅 Register for the open Q&A session on 13 January 2026 from 09:30-10:30 (UTC+1) to raise any questions about BID programme.
🔗 gbif.link/BID_QandA
December 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🤔 Have questions about the European Commission-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) regional and cross-regional call?
📅 Register for the open Q&A session on 13 January 2026 from 09:30-10:30 (UTC+1) to raise any questions about BID programme.
🔗 gbif.link/BID_QandA
📅 Register for the open Q&A session on 13 January 2026 from 09:30-10:30 (UTC+1) to raise any questions about BID programme.
🔗 gbif.link/BID_QandA
🚀 We're on the lookout for a temporary data administrator to join the Data Products team within in the GBIF Secretariat managing all aspects of data processing and data content!
❄️ Deadline: 13 January 2026
🔗 gbif.link/data-admin...
Note this role is located in Denmark
❄️ Deadline: 13 January 2026
🔗 gbif.link/data-admin...
Note this role is located in Denmark
December 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🚀 We're on the lookout for a temporary data administrator to join the Data Products team within in the GBIF Secretariat managing all aspects of data processing and data content!
❄️ Deadline: 13 January 2026
🔗 gbif.link/data-admin...
Note this role is located in Denmark
❄️ Deadline: 13 January 2026
🔗 gbif.link/data-admin...
Note this role is located in Denmark
(1) 🍄 A newly mobilized macrofungi dataset offers fresh insight into fungal diversity in Kenya! 🤩
Compiled by East African Wild Life Society and National Museums of Kenya the dataset documents macrofungi occurrences in the Lake Ol’Bolossat ecosystem.
Compiled by East African Wild Life Society and National Museums of Kenya the dataset documents macrofungi occurrences in the Lake Ol’Bolossat ecosystem.
December 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
(1) 🍄 A newly mobilized macrofungi dataset offers fresh insight into fungal diversity in Kenya! 🤩
Compiled by East African Wild Life Society and National Museums of Kenya the dataset documents macrofungi occurrences in the Lake Ol’Bolossat ecosystem.
Compiled by East African Wild Life Society and National Museums of Kenya the dataset documents macrofungi occurrences in the Lake Ol’Bolossat ecosystem.
🐙 The GBIF Secretariat is seeking a senior data engineer to work with our Engineering team!
🌏 This is a fully remote contractor role, initially for twelve months, with potential travel to workshops or meetings with GBIF partners.
🚀 Deadline: 9 January 2026
🔗gbif.link/senior-dat...
🌏 This is a fully remote contractor role, initially for twelve months, with potential travel to workshops or meetings with GBIF partners.
🚀 Deadline: 9 January 2026
🔗gbif.link/senior-dat...
December 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🐙 The GBIF Secretariat is seeking a senior data engineer to work with our Engineering team!
🌏 This is a fully remote contractor role, initially for twelve months, with potential travel to workshops or meetings with GBIF partners.
🚀 Deadline: 9 January 2026
🔗gbif.link/senior-dat...
🌏 This is a fully remote contractor role, initially for twelve months, with potential travel to workshops or meetings with GBIF partners.
🚀 Deadline: 9 January 2026
🔗gbif.link/senior-dat...
🐆 Call for proposals for the @ec.europa.eu-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme is OPEN!
Regional & cross-regional projects in #SubSaharanAfrica, #LatinAmerica and the #Caribbean or the #Pacific are invited.
Call: gbif.link/BID-region...
FAQs: gbif.link/BID-FAQs
Regional & cross-regional projects in #SubSaharanAfrica, #LatinAmerica and the #Caribbean or the #Pacific are invited.
Call: gbif.link/BID-region...
FAQs: gbif.link/BID-FAQs
December 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🐆 Call for proposals for the @ec.europa.eu-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme is OPEN!
Regional & cross-regional projects in #SubSaharanAfrica, #LatinAmerica and the #Caribbean or the #Pacific are invited.
Call: gbif.link/BID-region...
FAQs: gbif.link/BID-FAQs
Regional & cross-regional projects in #SubSaharanAfrica, #LatinAmerica and the #Caribbean or the #Pacific are invited.
Call: gbif.link/BID-region...
FAQs: gbif.link/BID-FAQs
There's still time to register for the GBIF #DataUseClub session TODAY! 🦎
Hear from the two 2025 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award winners - PhD student Kumdet Panshak Solomon and Master's student Esteban Marentes Herrera!
📍 11 December 2025, 15:00-16:30 CET
🔗 gbif.link/DUC_GRA
Hear from the two 2025 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award winners - PhD student Kumdet Panshak Solomon and Master's student Esteban Marentes Herrera!
📍 11 December 2025, 15:00-16:30 CET
🔗 gbif.link/DUC_GRA
December 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
There's still time to register for the GBIF #DataUseClub session TODAY! 🦎
Hear from the two 2025 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award winners - PhD student Kumdet Panshak Solomon and Master's student Esteban Marentes Herrera!
📍 11 December 2025, 15:00-16:30 CET
🔗 gbif.link/DUC_GRA
Hear from the two 2025 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award winners - PhD student Kumdet Panshak Solomon and Master's student Esteban Marentes Herrera!
📍 11 December 2025, 15:00-16:30 CET
🔗 gbif.link/DUC_GRA
We love to sea 🌊 marine datasets, so if you're a data publisher, make sure you're publishing your data 🐙 to both GBIF and OBIS to maximize data consistency, usability and interoperability across global networks!
OBIS joined the @gbif.org Technical Support Hour for a session on interoperability, data quality, & why publishing marine biodiversity data to OBIS and GBIF matters for science & policy.
👉 The main takeaway: GBIF-ready datasets are a click away from being added to OBIS!
obis.org/2025/10/23/o...
👉 The main takeaway: GBIF-ready datasets are a click away from being added to OBIS!
obis.org/2025/10/23/o...
December 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
We love to sea 🌊 marine datasets, so if you're a data publisher, make sure you're publishing your data 🐙 to both GBIF and OBIS to maximize data consistency, usability and interoperability across global networks!
News splash! 💦 🐟 GBIF data use surges globally, powering more than 12,000 studies across 180 countries! 🤯
The systematic review led by Dirk Steinke published in @pnas.org examined scopes, methods and complementary data sources in literature citing GBIF.
Read more: 🔗 gbif.link/systematic...
The systematic review led by Dirk Steinke published in @pnas.org examined scopes, methods and complementary data sources in literature citing GBIF.
Read more: 🔗 gbif.link/systematic...
December 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
News splash! 💦 🐟 GBIF data use surges globally, powering more than 12,000 studies across 180 countries! 🤯
The systematic review led by Dirk Steinke published in @pnas.org examined scopes, methods and complementary data sources in literature citing GBIF.
Read more: 🔗 gbif.link/systematic...
The systematic review led by Dirk Steinke published in @pnas.org examined scopes, methods and complementary data sources in literature citing GBIF.
Read more: 🔗 gbif.link/systematic...
📣 After years of development and earlier informal feedback rounds, the official @tdwg.org #DarwinCore public review is now live, your input is needed!
This is your chance to have your say in the official review for ratification! 🚀
🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...
This is your chance to have your say in the official review for ratification! 🚀
🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...
December 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
📣 After years of development and earlier informal feedback rounds, the official @tdwg.org #DarwinCore public review is now live, your input is needed!
This is your chance to have your say in the official review for ratification! 🚀
🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...
This is your chance to have your say in the official review for ratification! 🚀
🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...
New Danish national atlas provides new insights into the microbial world! 🦠
Microflora Danica is the largest project of its kind, mapping >140,000 bacterial species in the Danish microbial biome, many of which are new to science.
Microflora Danica is the largest project of its kind, mapping >140,000 bacterial species in the Danish microbial biome, many of which are new to science.
December 8, 2025 at 9:38 AM
New Danish national atlas provides new insights into the microbial world! 🦠
Microflora Danica is the largest project of its kind, mapping >140,000 bacterial species in the Danish microbial biome, many of which are new to science.
Microflora Danica is the largest project of its kind, mapping >140,000 bacterial species in the Danish microbial biome, many of which are new to science.
Celebrating GBIF #volunteers 💚
This year, more than 2,000 hours of volunteer activities across 55 countries were delivered! 🤯
To commemorate these achievements, 253 volunteer digital badges were issued to 175 active volunteers in 2025!
⭐ gbif.link/volunteer-...
#InternationalVolunteerDay
This year, more than 2,000 hours of volunteer activities across 55 countries were delivered! 🤯
To commemorate these achievements, 253 volunteer digital badges were issued to 175 active volunteers in 2025!
⭐ gbif.link/volunteer-...
#InternationalVolunteerDay
December 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Celebrating GBIF #volunteers 💚
This year, more than 2,000 hours of volunteer activities across 55 countries were delivered! 🤯
To commemorate these achievements, 253 volunteer digital badges were issued to 175 active volunteers in 2025!
⭐ gbif.link/volunteer-...
#InternationalVolunteerDay
This year, more than 2,000 hours of volunteer activities across 55 countries were delivered! 🤯
To commemorate these achievements, 253 volunteer digital badges were issued to 175 active volunteers in 2025!
⭐ gbif.link/volunteer-...
#InternationalVolunteerDay
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📟What if we could just predict by looking into the environment how subspecies distribute in the geographical space? Could that help us to optimize sampling efforts?
3 years ago @gbif.org recognized the potential of the work, now we have it here!
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
3 years ago @gbif.org recognized the potential of the work, now we have it here!
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Does ecology predict taxonomy? How ecological differentiation can be used to spatially infer intraspecific diversity
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December 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
📟What if we could just predict by looking into the environment how subspecies distribute in the geographical space? Could that help us to optimize sampling efforts?
3 years ago @gbif.org recognized the potential of the work, now we have it here!
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
3 years ago @gbif.org recognized the potential of the work, now we have it here!
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
18 reasons to celebrate! 🎉
Yesterday, 18 new national parks across ASEAN countries were commemorated at the Eighth ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity Heritage Parks Conference in Viet Nam! 🌲
📸 Nguyen Ky-Anh, Joe Miller, Uttam Babu Shrestha and Jerome L. Montemayor
#AHP8
Yesterday, 18 new national parks across ASEAN countries were commemorated at the Eighth ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity Heritage Parks Conference in Viet Nam! 🌲
📸 Nguyen Ky-Anh, Joe Miller, Uttam Babu Shrestha and Jerome L. Montemayor
#AHP8
December 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
18 reasons to celebrate! 🎉
Yesterday, 18 new national parks across ASEAN countries were commemorated at the Eighth ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity Heritage Parks Conference in Viet Nam! 🌲
📸 Nguyen Ky-Anh, Joe Miller, Uttam Babu Shrestha and Jerome L. Montemayor
#AHP8
Yesterday, 18 new national parks across ASEAN countries were commemorated at the Eighth ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity Heritage Parks Conference in Viet Nam! 🌲
📸 Nguyen Ky-Anh, Joe Miller, Uttam Babu Shrestha and Jerome L. Montemayor
#AHP8
A new dataset takes flight! 🪶🐦
The Atlas of Wintering Birds in Italy - AIRONE project has just mobilized more than 2.7 million records to GBIF! 🤯
This dataset provides records for bird occurrences across 15 winters in Italy, starting from 2010-11.
🔗 gbif.link/wintering-...
The Atlas of Wintering Birds in Italy - AIRONE project has just mobilized more than 2.7 million records to GBIF! 🤯
This dataset provides records for bird occurrences across 15 winters in Italy, starting from 2010-11.
🔗 gbif.link/wintering-...
December 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
A new dataset takes flight! 🪶🐦
The Atlas of Wintering Birds in Italy - AIRONE project has just mobilized more than 2.7 million records to GBIF! 🤯
This dataset provides records for bird occurrences across 15 winters in Italy, starting from 2010-11.
🔗 gbif.link/wintering-...
The Atlas of Wintering Birds in Italy - AIRONE project has just mobilized more than 2.7 million records to GBIF! 🤯
This dataset provides records for bird occurrences across 15 winters in Italy, starting from 2010-11.
🔗 gbif.link/wintering-...
Hello from #Vietnam👋
GBIF Executive Secretary @phylojoe.bsky.social is at the Eighth ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity Heritage Parks Conference (#AHP8). 🌏
This event provides an important opportunity to advance scientific and inclusive approaches to nature-based solutions in the region. 🦋
GBIF Executive Secretary @phylojoe.bsky.social is at the Eighth ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity Heritage Parks Conference (#AHP8). 🌏
This event provides an important opportunity to advance scientific and inclusive approaches to nature-based solutions in the region. 🦋
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Hello from #Vietnam👋
GBIF Executive Secretary @phylojoe.bsky.social is at the Eighth ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity Heritage Parks Conference (#AHP8). 🌏
This event provides an important opportunity to advance scientific and inclusive approaches to nature-based solutions in the region. 🦋
GBIF Executive Secretary @phylojoe.bsky.social is at the Eighth ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity Heritage Parks Conference (#AHP8). 🌏
This event provides an important opportunity to advance scientific and inclusive approaches to nature-based solutions in the region. 🦋
Seed-ccessful evolutionary tactics attract birds for seed dispersal 🐦👀
A recent study explored how flowering plant species 🌻 use seed mimicry to attract bird dispersers, revealing that seed mimicry was mostly observed in tropical regions.🏝️
🔗gbif.link/mimetic-seeds
#ScienceReview
A recent study explored how flowering plant species 🌻 use seed mimicry to attract bird dispersers, revealing that seed mimicry was mostly observed in tropical regions.🏝️
🔗gbif.link/mimetic-seeds
#ScienceReview
December 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Seed-ccessful evolutionary tactics attract birds for seed dispersal 🐦👀
A recent study explored how flowering plant species 🌻 use seed mimicry to attract bird dispersers, revealing that seed mimicry was mostly observed in tropical regions.🏝️
🔗gbif.link/mimetic-seeds
#ScienceReview
A recent study explored how flowering plant species 🌻 use seed mimicry to attract bird dispersers, revealing that seed mimicry was mostly observed in tropical regions.🏝️
🔗gbif.link/mimetic-seeds
#ScienceReview
📣 Last days to apply for our contractor position!🪲
GBIF are seeking a contractor to support the Secretariat in producing an overview paper documenting GBIF's 25 years of operations.
Deadline: 📍 3 December 2025.
Learn more about the opportunity: 🔗 gbif.link/25-year-co...
GBIF are seeking a contractor to support the Secretariat in producing an overview paper documenting GBIF's 25 years of operations.
Deadline: 📍 3 December 2025.
Learn more about the opportunity: 🔗 gbif.link/25-year-co...
December 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
📣 Last days to apply for our contractor position!🪲
GBIF are seeking a contractor to support the Secretariat in producing an overview paper documenting GBIF's 25 years of operations.
Deadline: 📍 3 December 2025.
Learn more about the opportunity: 🔗 gbif.link/25-year-co...
GBIF are seeking a contractor to support the Secretariat in producing an overview paper documenting GBIF's 25 years of operations.
Deadline: 📍 3 December 2025.
Learn more about the opportunity: 🔗 gbif.link/25-year-co...
🐿️ We've gathered the latest GBIF headlines in one place 👀
💙 See the November newsletter:🔗gbif.link/Nov-news
💜 Stay in the loop and receive our quarterly GBIF newsletter: gbif.link/subscribe
💙 See the November newsletter:🔗gbif.link/Nov-news
💜 Stay in the loop and receive our quarterly GBIF newsletter: gbif.link/subscribe
November 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM
🐿️ We've gathered the latest GBIF headlines in one place 👀
💙 See the November newsletter:🔗gbif.link/Nov-news
💜 Stay in the loop and receive our quarterly GBIF newsletter: gbif.link/subscribe
💙 See the November newsletter:🔗gbif.link/Nov-news
💜 Stay in the loop and receive our quarterly GBIF newsletter: gbif.link/subscribe
🌿 The TNFD recommends scaling up the GBIF network to help companies share open biodiversity data!
Through initiatives across the GBIF network, >120 businesses are contributing data, turning corporate data into a global public good for science, conservation and policy. 🌎
https://gbif.link/TNFD
Through initiatives across the GBIF network, >120 businesses are contributing data, turning corporate data into a global public good for science, conservation and policy. 🌎
https://gbif.link/TNFD
November 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🌿 The TNFD recommends scaling up the GBIF network to help companies share open biodiversity data!
Through initiatives across the GBIF network, >120 businesses are contributing data, turning corporate data into a global public good for science, conservation and policy. 🌎
https://gbif.link/TNFD
Through initiatives across the GBIF network, >120 businesses are contributing data, turning corporate data into a global public good for science, conservation and policy. 🌎
https://gbif.link/TNFD
Yesterday the GBIF Secretariat celebrated the 20 year anniversaries of Tim Robertson (Deputy Director and Head of Informatics) and Andrea Hahn (Head of Data Products)! 💚🎉
A big thank you to Marie, Cecilie and Susanne for organizing the celebrations 🎂 and Mélianie for pics! 📸
A big thank you to Marie, Cecilie and Susanne for organizing the celebrations 🎂 and Mélianie for pics! 📸
November 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Yesterday the GBIF Secretariat celebrated the 20 year anniversaries of Tim Robertson (Deputy Director and Head of Informatics) and Andrea Hahn (Head of Data Products)! 💚🎉
A big thank you to Marie, Cecilie and Susanne for organizing the celebrations 🎂 and Mélianie for pics! 📸
A big thank you to Marie, Cecilie and Susanne for organizing the celebrations 🎂 and Mélianie for pics! 📸
💚 Thanks to all who contributed to the GBIF eDNA Data Infrastructure: Technical Roadmap Review workshop!🧬
We've just published a summary report detailing the outcomes and future directions of the eDNA roadmap review, check it out! 👀
🔗 gbif.link/edna-roadm...
@minderoo.bsky.social
We've just published a summary report detailing the outcomes and future directions of the eDNA roadmap review, check it out! 👀
🔗 gbif.link/edna-roadm...
@minderoo.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
💚 Thanks to all who contributed to the GBIF eDNA Data Infrastructure: Technical Roadmap Review workshop!🧬
We've just published a summary report detailing the outcomes and future directions of the eDNA roadmap review, check it out! 👀
🔗 gbif.link/edna-roadm...
@minderoo.bsky.social
We've just published a summary report detailing the outcomes and future directions of the eDNA roadmap review, check it out! 👀
🔗 gbif.link/edna-roadm...
@minderoo.bsky.social